SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Representations: Films: Rashomon

»Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, and the dishonest retelling of the events in which everyone shows their ideal self by lying.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Medieval History: 12^th Century; Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Japanese History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Offenders: Tajōmaru; Cases: Fictional Victims: Masago; Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Brinkema, Eugenie. »The Fault Lines of Vision: Rashomon and The Man Left His Will on Film.« Rape in Art Cinema. Edited by Dominique Russell. New York 2010: 27-40.

[Info] de Menezes, Leandro A.M. »Memória, narrativa e testemunho em Rashomon.« Expedições 6 (2015): 121-133.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] He, Belinda. »Rashomon, Rape, or Rethinking Cinema as Women’s Hearings?« 138^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.